Zahedi-Hosseini, F, Scarf, PA and Syntetos, A 2017, 'Joint optimisation of inspection maintenance and spare parts provisioning: a comparative study of inventory policies using simulation and survey data' , Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 168 , pp. 306-316.
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Abstract
The demand for industrial plant spare parts is driven, at least in part, by maintenance requirements. It is therefore important to jointly optimise planned maintenance and the associated spare parts inventory using the most appropriate maintenance and replenishment policies. In this simulation-based study, we address this challenge in the context of the random failure of parts in service and the replacement of defective parts at inspections of period T. Inspections are modelled using the delay-time concept. A number of simultaneous periodic review and continuous review replenishment policies are compared. A paper making plant provides a real context for the presentation of our ideas. We survey practitioners working with such plant to collect real data that inform the values of parameters in the models. Our simulation results indicate that a periodic review policy with ordering that is twice as frequent as inspection is cost optimal in the context of the plant that we study. For the purpose of comparison, we also present and discuss the characteristics of the various policies considered.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Reliability Engineering & System Safety |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0951-8320 |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Philip Scarf |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2017 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2019 14:00 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/41580 |
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